2022-23

The goal of a teacher lies in his or her students cultivating their abilities, in a teaching environment characterized by a spirit of co-operation, to
deal with historical sources of various types, written, visual or oral, drawn from the whole spectrum of history,
to evaluate such sources in terms of their teaching potential,
to use them in teaching and to incorporate them as an organic part of the lesson plan.
The course has a workshop-oriented approach and will involve attending lessons in schools. The number of students admitted will therefore be limited.

The first half of the course examines in summary form the education of Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire and the nature of the education provided for them. Particular emphasis is laid upon the changes wrought by the Greek Enlightenment on education, resulting in the move from the 'Greek school' of the Church to the Greek school of the ethnos. The second part of the course offers an analysis of the progress of education from the foundation of the independent Greek nation-state to the present.

The course deals with cultural matters, such as public and private education, schools for the public, academies, libraries, the circulation of manuscripts and printed matter, literary production, painting and music. Selected archival sources are discussed and analysed, with a view to students familiarizing themselves with archival sources.
Students may take an optional one-hour study session, whose aim is to familiarize them with archival sources in Greek.